[Solved] Changing Language blanked my odt

[Limbo]

Hey, total noob here. Well, to linux, I've been using OO for a long time.

I have a document I was writing, very important, 85k or so words, in fact, been writing it over a period of months. Yesterday I did a spell check, then realised that it was on US spelling, not AU, so I did a quick change. Saved, exited. It was all there when I saved and exited.

This morning when I opened up Libre and opened my file, I got an ACII prompt, which language, etc, and no matter what I put it on, when I click okay, the document opens completely blank. I didn't get a prompt to recorvery, the file in my documents is 0kb, and there doesn't seem to be any backups, which is very unusual.

So as a noob, I need some very specific instructions on what I need to do.

Ta, lads.

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Check the temporary folder of the system (see in OOo Tools>Options>OOo>Paths). If there are folders like sgmlf.tmp with a file having the same name inside, make a copy of that file, rename it in .doc or .odt and cross your fingers.

Have you restarted the machine since closing the file yesterday?

[Limbo]

*salute* Cheers, Hagar, I'll try that. Yes, unfortunately, I did shut the computer down.

[Limbo]

Unfortunately there's nothing in the backup. Is there any way I could do a restore?

[Hagar Delest]

When you say there is no backup, have you checked the profile (see [Tutorial] The OOo user profile)?

You can try a recovery tool. I've used PhotoRec in the past and it worked quite well.

If no luck, have you tried the LibO forum and/or mailing list if there are similar cases? I remember one or 2 topics here about files down to 0b but not recently.

[Limbo]

Yes, Sir. I have checked the user profile. All hiddens enabled, ect. No backups.

I'll have a go with photorec. Cheers, mate. I'll be sure to tell y'all if it works.

[Limbo]

Hey, photorec has found my file (or a previous save of my file) So I'm sans few thou words, but I'm pretty happy. So you can put this one down as solved. You've been a great, cheers fellas.